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Inflation and Income Distribution: Further Evidenceon Empirical Links

By Ales Bulir, Anne Marie Gulde

August 1, 1995

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Ales Bulir, and Anne Marie Gulde. Inflation and Income Distribution: Further Evidenceon Empirical Links, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the effects of inflation and associated financial instability on income distribution. Using both pooled cross country and single country time series models, the level of inflation, inflation variability, and the variability of the nominal exchange rate are shown to impact negatively on overall income equality. Looking at disaggregate measures of income distribution, the issue as to whether inflation is a progressive or regressive tax is found to be negatively correlated with the level of development and the sophistication of the financial structure. The paper argues that these results point towards financial variables as a partial way of rectifying the generally poor explanatory power of both cross-country and time series models of income distribution.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Foreign exchange, Income distribution, Inflation, National accounts, Personal income, Prices, Purchasing power parity

Keywords: Consumer price indexes, Distribution-inflation link, Equivalized income, Family income, Gini coefficient, Income, Income change, Income distribution, Income distribution-inflation link, Income quintile, Income share, Inflation, Inflation data, Inflation uncertainty, Inflation variability, Personal income, Purchasing power parity, Quintiles in the United States, Sectoral income, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/086

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0861995

  • ISBN:

    9781451850826

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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